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Last week, the Nobel Prize website released a video of an interview with Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Being 82 years old, she was too frail to make the trip to Stockholm to accept the prize, but this video was a great way to learn more about this amazing Canadian writer.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are not familiar with her work, Alice Munro writes short stories about women and small town living.\u00a0In the interview, the author said that she started making up stories when she was a child. Someone read her The Little Mermaid<\/em> by Hans Christian Andersen, and the ending was so sad that Alice Munro wanted to change it. Later on, she made up stories on her long walk to school. Her early tales always had happy endings, but when she was a teenager, she started reading books like Wuthering Heights<\/em> by Emily Bronte, and she saw that dark and tragic stories could also be beautiful. Then Alice Munro got married to her first husband who was very supportive of her. She didn’t say to anybody that she wanted to be a writer though, as she felt people would not understand. She was a housewife, raising her daughters, and writing whenever she could.She never thought she would win the Nobel prize, as most authors underestimate their work. In fact, she doesn’t consider having a gift because writing is hard work.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Alice Munro decided to give up writing about a year ago. She will be sorely missed but we are so grateful for all the books she has published during her very productive life.<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview:\u00a0Alice Munro, In her Own Words<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Being 82 years old, she was too frail to make the trip to Stockholm to accept the prize, but this video was a great way to learn more about this amazing Canadian… Read More »Alice Munro’s Nobel Lecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121,2,51],"tags":[123,42,122,53],"yoast_head":"\nAlice Munro's Nobel Lecture - C\u00e9cile Sune<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alice Munro's interview for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alice Munro's Nobel Lecture - C\u00e9cile Sune\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alice Munro's interview for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C\u00e9cile Sune\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/cecilesuneblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-17T15:27:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-04-01T18:38:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Alice-Munro.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"355\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cecile\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cecile\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/\",\"name\":\"Alice Munro's Nobel Lecture - C\u00e9cile Sune\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Alice-Munro.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-17T15:27:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-01T18:38:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5ae7203da75cc7cf37cea5135ffbdb0d\"},\"description\":\"Alice Munro's interview for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/alice-munros-nobel-lecture\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Alice-Munro.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Alice-Munro.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":355,\"caption\":\"Alice Munro\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/\",\"name\":\"C\u00e9cile Sune\",\"description\":\"Book Obsessed\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5ae7203da75cc7cf37cea5135ffbdb0d\",\"name\":\"Cecile\",\"description\":\"C\u00e9cile Sune was born in Lyon, France, and her obsession with books started when she was 14. 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